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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The training event, which will be live streamed starting at 9:00 am , will feature fundraising and social media gurus Katya Andresen, Danielle Brigida, Tracy Equality Viselli, Jocelyn Harmon and more. They used social media to help win the DC Best Place to Volunteer Contest. Image by Codilicious from Flickr. Designate a cheer leader.

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Grassroots Campaigning: How to Use Online Channels to Build Offline Support

Connection Cafe

A volunteer who has been trained how to cut through the niceties that lawmakers prefer to let dominate a meeting (where do you eat, who’s your kin, etc.), But, in today’s world of digital over-communication and rowdy town halls overtaken by DC-based interest groups, one, two or even 20 Susans isn’t enough.

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New on SSIR: Can Giving Days Strengthen Your Community?

Amy Sample Ward

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. don’t embark on fundraising without a plan for using the funds, we can’t adopt a new fundraising approach without proper training.

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Social Learning Isn't Just for Kids: Learning in Public at Conferences and Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was in Washington, DC where I did a session on social media strategy for a convening of Packard Grantees. We are also learning in public when we engage in in-depth conversation whether it is offline or online, for example in the comments of a blog post or asking questions on Twitter. Offline/Online Interaction. Why or why not?

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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

Tech Soup

Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. The main purpose of the toll free number is to direct people to free computer and Internet training classes in their area. What Is Connect2Compete ?

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Vote Now for Your Favorite 17NTC Sessions

Tech Soup

Help put together the educational program for the 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference , taking place March 23 – 25, 2017 in Washington, DC. Bridging the Divide: Online and Offline Community Managers s ubmitted by Elijah van der Giessen @elijah. SUPERCHARGE Your Technology Training! Your opinion counts!

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Interview: Kivi Leroux Miller, The Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Amy Sample Ward

When I moved from California to Washington DC in 1998 to be with my then-boyfriend, now-husband, I decided to start my own consulting company, which originally focused on writing for environmental groups, thus EcoScribe Communications was born. Now that I’m doing online training, I’ve had small nonprofits in all 50 U.S.

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